Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@pauljpastor I'll be soaking in that a while. For now, an echo describing one of my great mentors also fighting as an infantryman with Patton. (He lied about his age to join his brother.) Quietening, afterwards, in the AK wilderness for 30 yrs, Nick then built the world's largest apple feast.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 8 Apr 2022

So, who in Oregon planted the 4,500 unique varieties making up the world’s most diverse apple orchard and, as such, a cornerstone planetary resource for foodshed experts researching ‘future heirlooms’? As it happens, the American-born son of a Ukrainian mother and Russian father.

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